Astronautical and Aeronautical Events of 1962 - NASA's History Office

122 ASTRONAUTICAL AND AERONAUTICAL EVENTS OF 1962
katchewan, all animals reported dead upon recovery. Conducted
by Ames Research Center Life Science Laboratory, experiment
was designed to check primary cosmic radiation.
July 16: Reported from Stockholm, Sweden, that NASA team had
arrived to launch four Nike-Cajun rockets for cooperative investi-
gation with the Swedish Committee for Space Research of high-
altitude, bright night clouds. Rockets would be launched from
Jokkmokk in northern Sweden.
NASA announced that two technical notes propose new concept on
the mechanics of solar heating of the upper atmosphere. Dr.
Isadore Harris (TN-D-1443) and Dr. Wolfgang Priester (TN-
D-1444) of Goddard Space Flight Center proposed that cor-
puscular radiation (i.e., solar wind) in association with hydro-
magnetic waves may be the energy source required to explain the
results obtained from orbiting satellites. Harris’ note provided
for the first time a diurnal picture of the thermosphere (120 to
2,050 kilometers above the earth’s surface). Priester’s note
postulated the physical properties scientists are likely to en-
counter during a complete ll-year solar cycle when upper atmos-
pheric conditions change according to solar flare activity.
Resumption of 17-nation Disarmament Committee session meetings
in Geneva. Appeal of President Kennedy for Russians to “join
in a creative search for ways of ending the arms race” was rejected
in Tass statement published in Moscow-the U.S. was attempting
to “conceal its rejection of general disarmament.”
NASA announced that nine selected college graduates had begun a
year of intensive training in NASA’s first Management Intern
Program. After four trainin eriods of three months (3 in
Headquarters offices and 1 at E? e d center), successful interns will
be offered permanent NASA employment in administrative
positions.
Radio Corporation of America announced that its Radar Division
had developed a new technique applying the doppler effect to
monopulse radar, to allow for velocity measurements of a space
vehicle up to 100 times more precise than by conventional
methods. Developed for the Army Signal R&D Lab at Fort
Monmouth, the new technique could be applied to radars already
in service.
Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom (Captain, USAF) promoted to Major,
USAF.
Pioneer flight surgeon, Dr. Bernard L. Jarman, who was appointed
the first medical examiner of the Civil Aeronautics Agency in
1927, died in Washington.
July 16: X-15 No. I flown to 107,000 feet at speeds up to 3,733 mph
by Joseph A. Walker, in series of seven “roller-coaster dips” in
test of the alternate stability augmentation system.
British transmitted first transatlantic color television during two
orbits of TELSTAR, twice transmitting still photographs to Andover
facility of ATBT.
Aviation Week reported that NASA had delayed announcement of its
lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR) decision for a week to allow for its
study by the President’s Science Advisory Committee.
0 In Cleveland ARS meeting, Associate NASA Administrator Robert
Seamans stated that decision on the lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR)